“Unflinchingly honest” indeed – here’s James Frey’s first interview since Oprah railed on him.
NPR reports that we may have discovered the oldest writing system yet, and it’s in Veracruz, Mexico.
The Brooklyn Book Festival is coming up tomorrow. I wish I could attend, if only to hear Jhumpa Lahiri read from The Namesake. It seems strange, though, that she and some of the other chosen authors are representing the voice of Brooklyn. The New York Times covers what, exactly, the voice of Brooklyn sounds like.
While we’re dreaming of travelling for literary events, let’s go to L.A. tonight to hear Zadie Smith read pieces of On Beauty.
Debate topic for a cloudy Friday afternoon: How does gender define modern authors? Daisy Goodwin of the BBC4’s “Reader, I Married Him,” says “You can’t have a really seriously romantic book written by a man.” On the other hand: This Is Not Chick Lit authors discuss what it means to be a “woman writer.”